How to get buffering percent of VideoView on Android

Question

My code as below:

Uri uri = Uri.parse(URL);
video.setVideoURI(uri);
video.start();

I use VideoView to play a stream video.
The video is a VideoView.
And I want to get the buffering percent like setOnBufferingUpdateListener in MediaPlayer.

MediaPlayer.setOnBufferingUpdateListener(new OnBufferingUpdateListener() {
    @Override
    public void onBufferingUpdate(MediaPlayer mp, int percent) {
        //buffering is percent
    }
});

How can I do it?

Solution

Implement this method for your VideoView:

public abstract void onBufferingUpdate (MediaPlayer mp, int percent)

mp is the MediaPlayer the update pertains to percent is the percentage (0-100) of the content that has been buffered or played thus far.

Source

You can add a progressbar before u start loading the Video, and then keep updating it inside this method. And once the buffering is complete (in onPreparedListener), just dismiss the progressbar.

Comments

[brian]

But I don't need progressbar, I only need the percent number.

[pilcrowpipe]

This is incorrect. Implementing onBufferingUpdate in a subclassed VideoView does nothing.

[Rakki s]

I have implemented it in my activity itself, but it does not call back again.

[Rakki s]

I have asked as separate question in the following link stackoverflow.com/questions/29029597/…

[cV2]

okay, sorry currently not into this topic, probably there is some way to setup the buffer for auto playing at some %. good luck.

[Rakki s]

No actually i have added the call back function for the buffer listener in that code but it's not called that's my issues ... i know the way to start play after some percentage.